Haha, look at Philosophy 101 student go.
Since you are obviously more intelligent than the rest, but too arrogant for your own good, I'll give you some slack because I used to be terrible at telling people off when I was your age as well. I also sort of had the same idiot ideas about things like:
You have no idea how profoundly stupid it is, not to mention how cliché, to ask questions like these. Basically I could answer with sex, sex, dirt.
Any one who can't live their lives without thinking they have some deeper meaning, are the dumb ones that struggle to find their place, and they fall easy prey to religion. Get a job, get some friends, get a girlfriend (or boyfriend if you're the fairer type of man), and get a life of your own, and live it.
Life is not complicated. I can cut it down to 5 simple steps, quoting one of the few great minds that the USA has to offer, George Carlin.
1. Get up
2. Get to work
3. Eat three hot meals
4. Take one good shit
5. Get back to bed
You can fill in hobbies and entertainment and goofing off where ever you have time left over. We're living to die, don't be primal and try to delude yourself into thinking humans are somehow different from animals in anything but cognition.
Average individual is the kind you see on Jerry Springer, so I'm not going to do pretty much anything that would be in their favor.
How ever. There are no facts, only interpretations. Truth is a myth.
Now THIS is something I've written a very long, very boring, very subjective and opinionated 19 page essay on. Well, 19 page fucking rambling, and this was from 2 years ago when I still took mind altering narcotics, but whatever. At least, even though it may have no relevance, it gives me an excuse to post shit.
Note that this is paraphrased because I didn't feel like making you jump off a bridge:
I believe, that every man, regardless his level of introspection, will seek an easy solution. I believe it's rational, it's logical, and it's human to do so. So, even a person who does not settle for fact as absolute truth will still, on some level, wish he had been able to, and supplement one easy solution with another deeper truth: a truth they believe fully to be absolute, at least for themselves, because they can't bring themselves to delving deeper still.
Only when a man cannot function without hope is he truly hopeless.
The sense of right and wrong that has been developed over the years has, as stated, grown beyond human comprehension. The truth of right and wrong has been substituted for a feeling of right and wrong. An interpretation. As the people who develop these feelings want them to be easily adoptable by a larger audience, they bend them to encompass that larger audience, so that everyone that joins the appropriate cult of righteousness will feel included and accepted as a working part of the machinery.
Of course, people will seek answers with the will or intent to spot a lie, and conform or adapt to a new mindset, but the variable degree in which people are willing to do this is so great it approaches the unfathomable. Furthermore, individuals that seek to discover absolute truth – beyond the preconceived notions developed by power-mongering peddlers of traditional belief-systems – are very few and far between indeed. People now are much more interested in attaching neon lights to the bottom of their Kia than they are in themselves, their life, and truth. Love, hate, and laughter all precede truth. And although all these things should have a firm place in our culture and lives, that should never precede the search for truth.
It is precisely because this truth, this one absolute universal omnipresent and ultimate truth – is so abrasive, so scary, so violently in opposition to the current developed beliefs, that we would just rather avoid it, giving the excuse that it is “more trouble than it is worth”. That puts things in perspective: When people can not see the infinite worth of absolute truth, that truly stands as a testament to the equally infinite human stupidity.
But everyone should dig as far as they can, or as far as they feel themselves able to, because then more and more will our descendants be strengthened in mind, and the more able they will be to cope with the truth. At least a truth closer to the ultimate, until gradually – generation by generation – we ultimately reach the goal of humanity: Transcendence. Elevation to a plane of all-knowing, and godliness.
Acquiring, designing, or engineering a mentality that transcends a vulgar display of power. Where does that get you? According to general consensus, what it gives you is this: A quality of being pompous. A quality of being self-righteous. A quality of being conceited. So what then does that leave you? Asserting your own truth gets you labeled self-righteous and conceited by the masses. And you can't very well block them out, because on top of everything else that will make you ignorant.
Our emotions are running wild, but our minds have stopped (thank you Bill Hicks, R.I.P.). We are at the point now where people in any given situation and circumstance, will genuinely not know whether they should laugh or cry. Social norms are so conflicting at this stage, and so numerous, that both can be correct. Though one reaction makes for a more easily explicable outcome, and thus is the one people would rather choose, as dictated by logic. The only positive things they render, are things for people like me to contemplate.
Acquiring, designing, or engineering a mentality that transcends a vulgar display of power. A mindset, a notion, a personal truth. It sounds so beautiful, doesn't it? However it does of course collapse on its own banality. It's absurdly Utopian. A world where everybody goes around and blindly accepts and respects any other persons belief and/or prejudice knowing that he himself has a wildly opposing personal belief, because he knows that hey, it works for him. Why should not this other persons belief work for that other person? Acquiring, designing or engineering a mentality like that must be done intrepidly.
It's interesting to note that my own language has its own word for “savior” to use exclusively in a religious or spiritual context. Not as with English, where it can be someone who rescues you from pure physical harm as well, this word is only used in spiritual or religious context. It frightens me to think about how much it has literally saturated society, these medieval impulses, when no part of it is safe from impact.
No where does the “selfless” person say out right that he wishes for everyone to focus on his needs or desires. He just says that the “selfish” person should stop thinking only about himself, effectively opening for the entire human race to be open for consideration by the former “selfish” party. In other words, you have nothing on him. Is that not just mincing words?
Our very lives depend upon truth, upon directness, upon clarity. When we employ these tools of deception within our conversational logic, everything is thrown into darkness. Language itself of course does not make it easy for us to avoid these pitfalls of confusion, but never the less, we do not try hard enough to avoid them. Again, it can be done, it just takes too much effort to possibly be worth doing.
An empty spectacle, a kabuki ritual of power, a leader cloaked his impotence in the trappings of office. An oligarchy masking its seething content behind a facade of acceptance. This is how the world ends; not with a bang, not with a whimper. Merely the deafening roar of hollow applause.
I wouldn't expect you to cry out for me, child. I wouldn't be listening. No one would, that's my point.
Since you are obviously more intelligent than the rest, but too arrogant for your own good, I'll give you some slack because I used to be terrible at telling people off when I was your age as well. I also sort of had the same idiot ideas about things like:
But has science answered any of the big questions, the ones that the primitives asked back then, and invented religion in an attempt to answer?
The questions I hear everyday when I stick out my immortal ear, such as:
"Why am I here?"
"What is our purpose in life?"
"What will happen to me when I die?"
You have no idea how profoundly stupid it is, not to mention how cliché, to ask questions like these. Basically I could answer with sex, sex, dirt.
Any one who can't live their lives without thinking they have some deeper meaning, are the dumb ones that struggle to find their place, and they fall easy prey to religion. Get a job, get some friends, get a girlfriend (or boyfriend if you're the fairer type of man), and get a life of your own, and live it.
Life is not complicated. I can cut it down to 5 simple steps, quoting one of the few great minds that the USA has to offer, George Carlin.
1. Get up
2. Get to work
3. Eat three hot meals
4. Take one good shit
5. Get back to bed
You can fill in hobbies and entertainment and goofing off where ever you have time left over. We're living to die, don't be primal and try to delude yourself into thinking humans are somehow different from animals in anything but cognition.
Humans are still Neanderthals at heart in this aspect, and no amount of scientific discovery is going to do anything to provide answers. And if it can't find answers to the real questions, the truly universal ones, then what purpose does it really serve to the average individual?
Average individual is the kind you see on Jerry Springer, so I'm not going to do pretty much anything that would be in their favor.
How ever. There are no facts, only interpretations. Truth is a myth.
Now THIS is something I've written a very long, very boring, very subjective and opinionated 19 page essay on. Well, 19 page fucking rambling, and this was from 2 years ago when I still took mind altering narcotics, but whatever. At least, even though it may have no relevance, it gives me an excuse to post shit.
Note that this is paraphrased because I didn't feel like making you jump off a bridge:
I believe, that every man, regardless his level of introspection, will seek an easy solution. I believe it's rational, it's logical, and it's human to do so. So, even a person who does not settle for fact as absolute truth will still, on some level, wish he had been able to, and supplement one easy solution with another deeper truth: a truth they believe fully to be absolute, at least for themselves, because they can't bring themselves to delving deeper still.
Only when a man cannot function without hope is he truly hopeless.
The sense of right and wrong that has been developed over the years has, as stated, grown beyond human comprehension. The truth of right and wrong has been substituted for a feeling of right and wrong. An interpretation. As the people who develop these feelings want them to be easily adoptable by a larger audience, they bend them to encompass that larger audience, so that everyone that joins the appropriate cult of righteousness will feel included and accepted as a working part of the machinery.
Of course, people will seek answers with the will or intent to spot a lie, and conform or adapt to a new mindset, but the variable degree in which people are willing to do this is so great it approaches the unfathomable. Furthermore, individuals that seek to discover absolute truth – beyond the preconceived notions developed by power-mongering peddlers of traditional belief-systems – are very few and far between indeed. People now are much more interested in attaching neon lights to the bottom of their Kia than they are in themselves, their life, and truth. Love, hate, and laughter all precede truth. And although all these things should have a firm place in our culture and lives, that should never precede the search for truth.
It is precisely because this truth, this one absolute universal omnipresent and ultimate truth – is so abrasive, so scary, so violently in opposition to the current developed beliefs, that we would just rather avoid it, giving the excuse that it is “more trouble than it is worth”. That puts things in perspective: When people can not see the infinite worth of absolute truth, that truly stands as a testament to the equally infinite human stupidity.
But everyone should dig as far as they can, or as far as they feel themselves able to, because then more and more will our descendants be strengthened in mind, and the more able they will be to cope with the truth. At least a truth closer to the ultimate, until gradually – generation by generation – we ultimately reach the goal of humanity: Transcendence. Elevation to a plane of all-knowing, and godliness.
Acquiring, designing, or engineering a mentality that transcends a vulgar display of power. Where does that get you? According to general consensus, what it gives you is this: A quality of being pompous. A quality of being self-righteous. A quality of being conceited. So what then does that leave you? Asserting your own truth gets you labeled self-righteous and conceited by the masses. And you can't very well block them out, because on top of everything else that will make you ignorant.
Our emotions are running wild, but our minds have stopped (thank you Bill Hicks, R.I.P.). We are at the point now where people in any given situation and circumstance, will genuinely not know whether they should laugh or cry. Social norms are so conflicting at this stage, and so numerous, that both can be correct. Though one reaction makes for a more easily explicable outcome, and thus is the one people would rather choose, as dictated by logic. The only positive things they render, are things for people like me to contemplate.
Acquiring, designing, or engineering a mentality that transcends a vulgar display of power. A mindset, a notion, a personal truth. It sounds so beautiful, doesn't it? However it does of course collapse on its own banality. It's absurdly Utopian. A world where everybody goes around and blindly accepts and respects any other persons belief and/or prejudice knowing that he himself has a wildly opposing personal belief, because he knows that hey, it works for him. Why should not this other persons belief work for that other person? Acquiring, designing or engineering a mentality like that must be done intrepidly.
It's interesting to note that my own language has its own word for “savior” to use exclusively in a religious or spiritual context. Not as with English, where it can be someone who rescues you from pure physical harm as well, this word is only used in spiritual or religious context. It frightens me to think about how much it has literally saturated society, these medieval impulses, when no part of it is safe from impact.
No where does the “selfless” person say out right that he wishes for everyone to focus on his needs or desires. He just says that the “selfish” person should stop thinking only about himself, effectively opening for the entire human race to be open for consideration by the former “selfish” party. In other words, you have nothing on him. Is that not just mincing words?
Our very lives depend upon truth, upon directness, upon clarity. When we employ these tools of deception within our conversational logic, everything is thrown into darkness. Language itself of course does not make it easy for us to avoid these pitfalls of confusion, but never the less, we do not try hard enough to avoid them. Again, it can be done, it just takes too much effort to possibly be worth doing.
An empty spectacle, a kabuki ritual of power, a leader cloaked his impotence in the trappings of office. An oligarchy masking its seething content behind a facade of acceptance. This is how the world ends; not with a bang, not with a whimper. Merely the deafening roar of hollow applause.
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